Carriage-shaft support



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0. P. RANDALL.

CARRIAGE SHAFT SUPPORT.

No. 306.521. Patented Oct. 14, 1884.

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CHARLES E. RANDALL, OF SOUTH ABINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

CARRlAGE-SHAFT SUPPORT;

SEPECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 306,521, dated October 14, 188%.

Application file-(l April 5, 1854.

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Be it known that I, CHARLES E. RANDALL, of South Abington, in the county of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and Improved Carriage-Shaft Holder, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved device for holding the shafts of carriages or other vehicles raised at any desired inclination.-

The invention consists inv the combination, with a vehicleaxle, of a curved forked strip held on and projecting over the axle toward the front, and provided with adjustable screws or projections in the shanks, and of a clip secured on the axle, and provided with apertures for receiving the projections or screws on the forked strip.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a side view of my improved car riage-shaft holder. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same.

To the bottom of the aXleA a strip or plate 13 is held by the clip B, which strip is bent upward at the back of the axle, and then pro 0 jects over the top of the axle toward the front,

the upper part, A, of the strip B being forked. The strip B is made of steel or other suitable spring metal. Each shank of the forked part Ais provided with a series of apertures, a, in one of which, in each shank, a screw, 0, is screwed,the inner end of the same being rounded or beveled.

011 the bottom edge and each side edge of each shaft, 1), a clip, E, is held, which is provided in each side with an aperture, d, for receiving the inner end of a screw, 0. If the (ModeL) passing the screws 0 into different apertures a.

The above-described device can be attached to any vehicle.

I am aware that it is not new to provide a shaft-support for vehicles consisting of a pair of spring-arms bent toward each other near their outer ends to snap around theshafts when they are pressed between said spring-arms; and I do not claim such, broadly, as of Inyinvention, as myinvention is intended as an in1- provernent thereon by allowing the shafts to be secured at different angles to suit the height of the carriage-house roof, and the height of the person that has to pass under the shafts in going around the carriage.

Having thus described myinvention,what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination,with avehicleaxle, of a curved forked strip held on the same and provided with adjustable projections, and of an apertured clip 011 the shaft, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. The combination, with a vehicleaxle, of the forked strip A, held on the same and projecting over the top of the axle toward the front, and provided with apertures a,the screws 0, and of the clip E, held on the shaft and provided with apertures d, substantially as herein shown and described. 7

CHARLES E. RANDALL.

\Vitn esses SIDNEY O. COBB, Josmn CUSHMAN. 

